What Genre Am I?

Writers create texts in a variety of styles. Which genre do you like to read? In which genre do you want to write?

Adventure Story

• Main theme--Risk or danger.

• fast-paced plot focuses on the actions of the hero within the setting

• features animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature which are given human qualities

• illustrates a moral lesson

Fairy TaleFantasy

• magic characters/items, fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, giants, and talking animals.

• Modern fairy tales use existing fairy tale plots but set them in today’s world.

• Imaginative setting

Legend

• A story usually about a national or folk hero.

• Set in a particular time and place

• partly true and partly fiction.

• The character traits of the hero are typically exaggerated.

MythOrigin Story

• An event that is meant to serve as an explanation for some phenomenon of nature or human behavior.

• Characters are usually gods.

Science Fiction

• set in the future or on other planets

• based on the impact of actual, imagined, or potential science.

• Dystopia – science/humanity gone wrong

Romance

• primary focus is on the relationship and romantic love between two people

• "emotionally satisfying and optimistic ending.“

Historical Fiction

• takes place in a historically accurate time and setting.

• attempt to capture the spirit, manners, and social conditions of the persons or time(s).

• Dramatize historical figures

Realistic Fiction

• seems real or could happen in real life

• set in present day and includes modern day problems and events

Mystery

• Puzzling event or situation.

• Solving a crime. • Centered around a

person who investigates wrongdoing.

• Suspense and secrets

Horror

• intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience.

• any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme

• Supernatural

Gothic• combines elements of

both horror and romance

• mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets, and hereditary curses

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